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Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit
gaurab writes "A survey on Internetweek says 'SCO's Linux lawsuit and threats seem to be having little affect on IT managers except to make them angry. Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions.' The article is also available at Yahoo!"
Yeah, they still are not going to use linux :)
This is a relief to see that the PHB-types are not buying into the FUD either. I wonder what logic Sontag would come up with to explain that statistic...?
....or something to that effect.
"All Linux users are thieves to begin with, we will crush them with our mighty IP!"
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
... we've been much to busy uninstalling AIX to worry about linux.
That other 1 company is a Microsoft/SCO/Evil company of the week Puppet!
Slashdot really does get around!
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
we're rolling out MORE Linux! Hey, thanks SCO!!
Since when did your PHB need a good reason to make a decision? He probably saw a picture of Tux and thought that a fat penguin wasn't the image his company wanted to project. I've seen projects canned for even sillier reasons than that, believe it or not.
Beep beep.
of that %19, %100 said noone noticed, even when the SCSI disks gave a last, belated whine and emitted the magic smoke.
another %6 answered that, after numerous beers on a friday night, they had actually urinated on their last remaining SCO server.
of those %6, %35 admitted to accidentally hitting the power supply.
of that %35, %15 said it was the best thrill they had in the past year. The other %65 just clutched their genitalia while answering the question.
PC moderators can suck my White pierced, tattooed dick. If you think pride == hate, s/dick/Aryan meat mallet/g.
We are decommissioning Unixware boxes and replacing them with Linux as fast as we can!!!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
SCO
Linux
Lawsuit
Furthermore, SCO, SCO, GNU/SCO, IBM, Unix, Linux, patents, damn patents, damn the patents, let them eat patents. In other news:
Horse assaulted posmortem
Red cross finds new hemoglobin source in rock quarry
From the article:
Yes, we're reducing our Linux deployment, eliminating Linux entirely -- or at least we're thinking about it: 9 percent.
In other news, one company has seen a huge increase in orders requested for SCO headquarters.
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Another online survey at Slashdot says 'Fully 24% of People beleive that .NET is the largest threat to humanity.'
In other news, Slashdot editors still insist that if you're using these numbers for anything meaningful, you're insane.
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The other 9% had not yet seen the "decision matrix" that demonstrated clearly, and without any bias, that "Linux is unaffected" in all cases. If they had seen this matrix prior to taking part in the poll, they would have answered differently. At the time, however, they still had concerns that were being looked into.
Please be aware that some companies are not yet aware of this decision matrix, or, worse, have formulated their own that does not come to the same conclusion. Please spread the word.
-- Fighting mediocrity one bad post at a time.
One of my current projects involves moving some old code from Siemens off of SCO boxes, and moving it onto Linux boxes so that we can permanently get rid of SCO. Muahaha. I felt so dirty after touching that SCO machine yesterday though. Eww.
Mike.
Mmmm......sacrelicious.
One example I was given was oral sex.
Who's giving this example, where do I sign up, and do I have to sign an NDA?
Read, L
... Not.
:-)
No matter how many stories about this lawsuit
(funny or otherwise) I stick to the local
bulletin boards (i.e., non-electronic) the
less changes.
We get our Linux workstations, they (mgmt)
get their PC's and they keep sending Word
documents around (because, how else could I
highlight the important portions
Cheers,
Toon Moene (current GNU Fortran maintainer).
Not to troll, but if he's referring to typical for(i=0; ;i++) loops and the like, I'm pretty certain SCO's not dumb enough to claim such one-liner code fragments are theirs.
No, SCO claims ownership of the 'Hello, World' program. Since this is the first program anyone ever runs, all other programs therefore derive from 'Hello, World' and therefore are the IP of SCO.
What are the other 9% thinking?
Probably a lot of those 9% could fall into these categories:
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Man have we been busy... Ever since SCO revoked IBMs license, the PHBs have been freaking out. They gave us 30 days to make the move, we argued that it would probably take two years.
The PHBs got together to discuss it and agreed with us and gave us 30 + 2 days to get it done. We then had to explain the differences between 'day' and 'year', which took a long time because to explain 'day', we had to first get them to understand the difference between 'light' and 'dark'. Boy were they excited when they figured out there actually was a reason behind wearing their stylish wrist devices!!
Then we tangented off to several meeting about finding a reason for the stylish things they tie around their necks. Never were able to figure that one out, even with all us techies there to assist.
But, we are now allowed to come to work naked as long as we have a stylish wrist device!
We now have 13 days remaining to make the switch from AIX. We are simply moving everything to Linux, but putting up a custom message that says "SuperOS" instead of "Linux" or "AIX" and they seem nice and calm again.
Stupid fux...
SCO is literrally the spawn of Microsoft, twice removed on its mother's side. :)
"Note: I'm flaming, but not at you personally."
Woah, I thought that the Internet was supposed to be relatively anonymous... I don't need to know your sexual orientation.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
(Appropriate alternative lyrics to "Buddy Holly" by Weezer)
What's with these losers threatening us
Why won't they get a clue
Why are they wasting those legal fees
Instead of inventing something new
Ooh ooh, IBM they dissed
Ooh ooh, now they're really pissed
Ooh ooh... They picked the wrong foe!
SCO: what a bunch of fucking morons
Oh oh fuck their bogus IP claims
I don't care what they say about suing
i don't care 'bout that
"Oooh, does that mean we get to kick some puffy white mad zionist butt?"
I have just one thing to say to that...
h ah ahaahaaaaa!
Bwhahahahahaahahaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaha
FreeBSD alive. What a joke.
GJC
Gregory Casamento
## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
I figure a fat penguin is too busy eating fish to do much damage to my precious hardware. A mischievous daemon, on the other hand...
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10